【Translation】OpenMetrics cultivated by CNCF becomes an incubation project

Posted on February 3, 2022

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CNCFTechnical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF Incubation Project.

OpenMetrics creates an open standard for delivering cloud-native metrics at scale.It is an open standard for Prometheus and is the officially supported presentation format for the project and compatible solutions.Metrics are a special kind of telemetry that, when combined with logs and traces, can provide a comprehensive view of cloud-native application performance.

OpenMetrics was created within CNCF in 2017.Since then, OpenMetrics has released a stable 1.0 specification, as well as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Draft, expected to become an RFC, with the goal of becoming an official Internet standard.It is used or supported by most CNCF projects and many broader cloud native ecosystem projects.Additionally, any changes will behref="https://kubernetes.io/">Kubernetes and Thanos are considered closely.

" said Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Community Director at Grafana Labs and founder of OpenMetrics, "The creation of OpenMetrics within CNCF was inevitable."The CNCF is a major driver of cloud-native technologies. Seeing a natural, organic, largely untouched migration is the dream of everyone working in infrastructure, and that's exactly what we've achieved."

OpenMetrics is used in production by many large enterprises, including GitLab, DoorDash, Grafana Labs, Chronosphere, Everquote, and SoundCloud.The team estimates there are hundreds of thousands of OpenMetrics users, millions of Prometheus installations, and significantly more programs emitting data, including every Kubernetes instance.Two of the most commonly used Prometheus client libraries support OpenMetrics - Python since October 2018, Go since From January 2020.

"Using OpenMetrics' opinion format allows us to improve our observability and bring standardization to our telemetry data," said Rabun Kosar, Infrastructure Software Engineer at DoorDash."We were able to define engineering-level standards for naming metrics and labels, and attach a standard set of labels to each metric. This in turn allowed us to create templated dashboards and standard alerts for services, saving engineers timeTo try to form alert queries on critical resources like container CPU/memory or restart counts or JVM resources."

Notable milestones.

• >1,600 GitHub stars
• 4 maintainers from different organizations
• Dozens of contributors in total

The next highlight feature of OpenMetrics will be the new Prometheus high-resolution histogram, which will mark the release of version 2.0.OpenTelemetry also intends to support OpenMetrics as a first-class wire format.

"The Prometheus Project has chosen to include OpenMetrics in its compliance test suite,to safeguard open standards," Hartmann said."With Prometheus releasing new high-resolution histograms soon, OpenMetrics will release a 2.0 version for reference. Working closely with OpenTelemetry, all three projects have identified a common language for emitting metrics in cloud-native applications and beyondIn order to further narrow the technology gap, OpenMetrics has also built a bridge for the IETF to bring cloud-native technologies to the foundation of the Internet.

" Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF, said: "OpenMetrics was spun off from Prometheus to provide a canonical and de facto standard format for metrics."Given the widespread adoption of Prometheus and the growth of the OpenMetrics community, it has made great strides in improving the interoperability of cloud-native observation capabilities. We look forward to seeing further collaboration between CNCF projects such as Prometheus and OpenMetrics for end-usersImprove observability technologies and enable cross-vendor collaboration."
As a CNCF-hosted project, OpenMetrics is part of a neutral foundation aligned with its technical interests and the larger Linux Foundation, whichProvide governance, marketing support and community outreach.OpenMetrics joins incubation technologies Argo, Buildpacks, Cilium, CloudEvents, CNI, Contour, Cortex, CRI-O, Crossplane, Dapr, Dragonfly, emissary-ingress, Falco, Flagger, Flux, gRPC, KEDA, KubeEdge, LitmusChaos, Longhorn, NATS, Notary, OpenTelemetry, Operator Framework, SPIFFE, SPIRE, and Thanos.For more information on the maturity requirements for each level, please visit CNCF's Graduation Criteria.